Join a high-performing university sport environment where you will play a central and influential role in shaping the performance services that underpin athlete success.
This is an opportunity to work at the heart of an ambitious performance system, supporting talented student-athletes to reach their full potential while helping them transition successfully to elite and professional levels of sport.
As Performance Services Manager, you will lead the delivery, coordination, and ongoing development of an integrated sports science and medicine provision. Working closely with the Head of Student Performance Sport, you will provide strategic direction and operational leadership to a team of specialist practitioners, ensuring that services are aligned, evidence-informed, and focused on delivering meaningful impact for athletes.
You will operate within a collaborative, interdisciplinary performance support team, bringing together expertise across physiotherapy, strength and conditioning, and other specialist services. By fostering a culture of collaboration and continuous improvement, you will ensure that athletes benefit from a seamless, holistic support system that enhances both performance and wellbeing.
The role extends across a diverse and exciting portfolio, including student performance sport programmes, Talented Athlete Scholarship Scheme (TASS) athletes, and partnerships with national governing bodies. You will play a key role in strengthening these relationships, enhancing service provision, and identifying opportunities to innovate and expand support in line with the evolving demands of high-performance sport.
We’re looking for a purpose driven, collaborative and focused leader who is passionate about enhancing athlete performance through high-quality, evidence-informed support services.
You will bring a blend of technical expertise, leadership capability, and a commitment to continuous improvement.
You will have proven experience leading or coordinating sports science and/or medicine services within performance sport, with a strong understanding of student and/or elite sport environments, including interdisciplinary athlete support.
Experience working collaboratively with coaches and multi-disciplinary teams to deliver integrated support is also required.
Ultimately, this position sits within a wider vision to create one of the UK’s leading university performance environments - one that balances sporting excellence with athlete welfare and dual career success. It offers an exceptional opportunity for an experienced leader to shape strategy, influence culture, and make a lasting impact on athletes, staff, and the broader performance system.
You are required to remain accredited as an UKAD Advisor as a condition of employment.
For an informal discussion about the role please contact Louis Richards, Head of Student Performance Sport at [email protected]
We consider ourselves to be a university where difference is celebrated, respected and encouraged. We have an excellent international reputation with staff from over 60 different nations and have made a positive commitment towards gender equity and intersectionality receiving a Silver Athena SWAN award. We truly believe that diversity of experience, perspectives, and backgrounds will lead to a better environment for our employees and students and encourage applications from all genders, backgrounds, and communities, particularly from under-represented groups, and value the positive impact that will have on the university. We are committed to maintaining a safe and secure environment for our students, staff, and community by reinforcing our Safer Recruitment commitment.
We're very proud to be a signatory of the Armed Forces Covenant. an accredited Disability Confident Leader; autism friendly university, committed to building disability confidence and supporting disabled staff.
We're continually expanding our benefits package to better support you and enhance your experience with us and the below is just an example of some of the many great benefits we offer:
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Generous annual leave allowance with an additional 5 discretionary days so that you can enjoy a positive work life balance
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Generous employer contributory pension schemes
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Cycle to work scheme
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Electric vehicle salary sacrifice scheme
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Staff discount at Team Bath gym
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Staff benefits include discounted postgraduate tuition and language courses, alongside a wide range of personal and professional development opportunities such as apprenticeships, LinkedIn Learning, and more
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Local discounts, including free entry to the Holburne Museum in Bath
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A family-friendly workplace
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An excellent reward package that recognises the talents of our diverse workforce
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Relocation allowance
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Visa reimbursement and Interest-Free Loan to help with the cost of some immigration expenses
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Employee assistance services through Health Assured, including access to the Wisdom app
Find out more about our benefits hear from our staff about what makes the University of Bath a great place to work as well as following us X and LinkedIn.
We’re committed to creating a health-supporting working environment where everyone can thrive and be at their best. We offer a range of resources to enable you to do that from your first day here, including:
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Staff support groups and networks
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A network of Staff Wellbeing Champions
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A suite of tools, resources and frameworks that enable you to be at your best and thrive
Find out more about being at your best at Bath.
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Right to Work in the UK: We do not assess immigration or right to work status until offer stage. Being invited to interview does not guarantee you are eligible for visa sponsorship and all offers are conditional on meeting right to work requirements. Further information is available on our application support webpage.
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